BA in Anthropology and Linguistics in New York United States | New York University

The Department of Anthropology stands among the nation's premier institutions for graduate and undergraduate studies, covering cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology—the four core disciplines in its undergraduate program. The department takes pride in its faculty's diverse specializations, including medieval archaeology, European/Near Eastern/South Asian prehistory, molecular primatology, primate behavioral ecology, paleoanthropology, discourse analysis, language socialization, and sociocultural studies spanning North America, Africa, India, China, the Near/Middle East, Russia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and the South Pacific. The program emphasizes theoretical frameworks exploring systems of thought, symbolic representation, gender dynamics, social organization in various settings, medical anthropology, human/primate evolution, religion, art, science studies, race/ethnicity, and ethnographic representation in film and media.

Linguistics examines the scientific study of human language, identifying universal patterns while analyzing individual languages. Researchers investigate syntax (sentence structure), morphology (word formation), semantics (meaning), phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound systems), historical linguistics (language evolution), sociolinguistics (language-society interactions), and psycholinguistics/neurolinguistics (brain-language relationships). Faculty research spans syntax-semantics connections, phonetics-phonology interfaces, language contact phenomena, pidgin/creole languages, urban sociolinguistics, and computational modeling of syntactic processes.